Completed projects

We have a number of recently completed projects which have contributed to the overall improvement in services and the environment for staff, patients and visitors, these include:

Jubilee Building and Concourse

The new Jubilee building opened to patients on Saturday 15th March 2014.

The Jubilee building has three wards, Barrington on the Ground floor with 32 beds, Hestercombe on the First floor with 40 beds and Montacute on the top floor with 40 beds. All 112 bedrooms have en-suite bathrooms. It replaces four open plan ‘Nightingale’ wards in the Old Building. The wards treat mainly surgical patients for the following specialities General Surgery, Colorectal, Urology, Gynaecology, Breast, Orthopaedic, Vascular and Upper GI.

The wards have been specially designed into eight room ‘pods’ to allow nurses and other health care professionals more time to deliver care directly to patients and to create an environment that improves patients’ safety and well-being.

At the centre of the Jubilee Building is a therapeutic courtyard, including a water feature and sensory landscaping, that can be used by patients and their visitors.

The Beacon Centre

The Beacon Centre at Musgrove Park Hospital was opened in May 2009. It accommodates chemotherapy and outpatient services, together with a radiotherapy unit with three Elekta linear accelerators, a CT simulator and an 18 bed inpatient oncology ward, chemotherapy suite for 22 patients and a clinical trials room.

The project was procured under the Government's Private Finance Initiative (PFI) scheme. The Trust selected a private consortium, Taunton Linac Company Ltd (Innisfree Group), to provide the funding, design, construction and commissioning of the building and equipment, and then the maintenance of the building and the major pieces of equipment, principally the linear accelerators, for 30 years.

The Trust provides all the clinical services and retains responsibility for provision of cleaning, catering, portering and courier services.

Cedars Multi-Storey Car Park

The multi-storey car park is situated to the west of the Day Surgery and opened for use by both staff and the public. In 2007 it won the Car Park of the Year Award from the British Parking Association.

All car parking on site is managed on behalf of the Trust by Q-Park who can be contacted on 01823 344758.

New Hospital Access

As a planning condition prior to any major redevelopment work, the provision of a new traffic light controlled road junction on the A38 Wellington Road to provide the main vehicular access route to the hospital was required.

The project reconfigured the road junction to provide the following improvements:-

Widening of both sides of Wellington Road

Installation of traffic signals on the hospital access road and Wellington Road to include an all-pedestrian phase

Installation of traffic islands on Wellington Road each side of the hospital access road

Strengthening of retaining wall adjacent to the cemetery and provision of a footpath

Resurfacing of the hospital access road

New pedestrian crossing

Work was completed in March 2004.

Helipad

The Trust decided that to continue providing high quality emergency care to the people of Somerset, it progressed plans to develop a helipad on the Musgrove Park site. The Helipad has been fully operational since May 2010.